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Not pushing the team too hard – a fine balance that can be easy to miss – Part 4 ..




This is a series of posts (Previous post about a hard pushing manager) that I am writing about the morale issues we faced in a team that increased its productivity levels over a period of months, making it one of the most productive teams in the company. However, the issue was about whether we reached [...]



Not pushing the team too hard – a fine balance that can be easy to miss – Part 3 ..




This is a series of posts that I am writing about the dynamics of a team, and how it came to be that we started getting push back from the team about pushing them too hard, which lead to a series of introspective discussions (Pushing the team too hard) about whether we had gone too [...]



Not pushing the team too hard – a fine balance that can be easy to miss – Part 1




The topic for this post came up from a recent discussion that we started having. The managers of the team were astounded when, at yet another weekend, when members of the team were called for work (since yet another milestone was approaching), almost 90% of the team came up with excuses individually, and finally, the [...]



When the Scrum Master acts on behalf of the team, commits tasks without consulting the team ..




There is a lot of confusion in Scrum teams about the boundaries of the role of the Scrum Master. For teams that have only recently moved over from some other project development methodology such as Waterfall, in a number of cases, the role of a Scrum Master is taken by one of the managers of [...]